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With two wins in three days at Challenge Mallorca, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Leigh Howard’s second year with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica GreenEdge is looking extremely promising. Heading into the season, Howard outlined he would simply try to win as many races as possible in 2013 and he’s off to a cracking start. Taking to the top step of the podium at two out of the four Mallorca races - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trofeo Migjorn and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Platja de Muro - should provide him with plenty of🅠 confidence heading into the spring classics.

Howard’s second victory at Trofeo Platja de Muro was once again the result of a perfectly delivered race plan. The team wanted a rider in the breakaway and with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Matthews making the initial selection, the team could save their energy until later i🔴n the 169.8km race.

"We really wanted a rider in the early break," said ꦏsports director Neil Stephens. "This took the pressure off us and also gave us an extra rider up the road ahead of the finish."

With Matthews wrapping up the KOM prize and eventually caught by the chasing peloton, the team went to work to set up the sprint. Howard was missing his lea⭕d-out man Mitch Docker from Trofeo Migjorn but the classics specialist Sebastian Langeveld was more th🦂an capable of taking up the role.

"It is always great to win but we managed to win the King of the Mountains jerseys h♏ere as well," said Stephens. "We are not norma♉lly thought of as a team of climbers so that makes it even better."

The team is undoubtedly bearing the fruits of a busy January which for Howard at least, started on New Year’s Day with the ‘168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bay Crits’ before racing the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Australian National Championships and more recently, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de San Luis. With two wins achieved in Spain, Howard will now turn his attention to continuing his winning run at his first spring classic of the season in B🐈elgium at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.

"A massive thanks to all the boys for supporting me the entire race, without them it’s not possible," said Howard. "Thanks to Stevo [Stephens] for h𒆙aving faith in me again💮."